Leeds’ get four days as quartet offers £20m

TREVOR BIRCH has been granted a further four-day extension to a ‘standstill agreement’ with creditors as the Leeds chairman continues his attempts to find a buyer for the cash-strapped club.

It would appear Birch has satisfied the principal creditors, who are owed a combined stg£82 million, that a four-man, Yorkshire-based consortium are poised to take control of Leeds in a buy-out understood to be worth stg£20million.

Negotiations are at an advanced stage, and being conducted through a prominent firm of lawyers in Leeds, with the possibility a deal could now be finalised by the end of the week.